I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.

Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.

The only way to make a library safe is to lock people out of it. As long as they are allowed to read the books ‘any old time they have a mind to,’ libraries will...

When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

The idea that you earn things – that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment… these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

Want to turn your dream in idea? Then write how wonderful it is with all the details. But never forget to plan step by step how to make it a reality. Dream without action does...

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

we hear the most brilliant ideas and suggestions we failure comes our way

An new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it’s modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.

All of us, at some point in life, get brilliant ideas…only a few of us have the courage to take the next step.

As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It’s the ideas I’m interested...

It was a little hard for me at first: I remember coming in with a ton of ideas, and I wanted to present them all, and they wanted to hear them, but at the same...

Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

It’s important to know what you think, my dear, or else you will be so hemmed in by other people’s ideas and opinions, you won’t have room for your own.

Scientists gladly accept any new truth demonstrated by evidence, that is, proved by the very law of the cosmos. Not so with any new conceptions of religion; these are fought by the use of persecution...

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must...

I feel obligated to point out, though, that I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetically pleasing. The cosmic sweep of the thing – an interstellar kula chain – affirming the differences...

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.

Fortune follows those who can create ideas by connecting old ones. Strong personal brands are created when connection and creation connect.

Don’t exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.

Many great ideas, great love stories, and great achievements are born from a healthy irrationality.

How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it.

I would never advise shooing away a good idea.

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

All the students were in charge of interviewing, writing, brainstorming ideas and designing.

Great ideas doesn’t need approvals, they need application.

The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.

At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly contradictory attitueds–an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all...

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

My experiments reveal how memories can be changed by things that we are told. Fact, ideas, suggestions and other forms of post-event information can modify our memories. The legal field, so reliant on memories, has...

Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.

A lot of interesting ideas are being circulated, and the mayor is exploring all of them.

Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

We live in a world in which people are censured, demoted, imprisoned, beheaded, simply because they have opened their mouths, flapped their lips, and vibrated some air. Yes, those vibrations can make us feel sad...

Si censuran tus ideas ten valor, no te rindas nunca, siempre alza la voz…Lucha fuerte, sin medida… No dejes de creer.

Ideas are not immaculately conceived.

I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills...

Whenever that tiny bulb of revelation flashes over your head, it almost always follows a period of uncertainty. These periods are usually dark and distorted, with nary a sliver of light, yet they serve us...

I do try to do high-impact work, and I try to think of ideas people haven’t thought about that have broad implications, but I don’t restrict myself to that. I try to work on things...

The map of what we call reality is an ever-shifting mosaic of ideas.

There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and...

15″General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter—for the future. His duty...

If you do not read and listen to the opposite ideas, you can always remain a stupid person! Opposite ideas, however contrary they may sound, are your greater chances on the way to truth!